Mike Zeisberger, Toronto Sun

Zize joined the Sun in October, 1988, and covered auto-racing, the CFL, NFL and baseball, before moving to the Leafs/NHL beat in 1999. Very sociable, Mike's on a first-name basis with Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin and many other NHL stars. Covers the NFL in the off-season. Lives in Scarborough.

In his role as the official ambassador
for the NHL’s centennial season, Wayne
Gretzky sat down for a one-on-one with
Postmedia to discuss all things hockey.
In the third of a four-part series
entitled “THE GREAT ONE & THE STATE OF
THE GAME,” Gretzky admits that the
soaring costs of playing hockey is not
a new dilemma for the sport — but
nevertheles

Saturday night. Hockey Night in Canada. Canada-Russia. On home soil. In front of a raucous red-and-white clad capacity crowd at the Air Canada Centre and a national television audience watching at home from coast to coast.

In the early days of training camp in Ottawa two
weeks ago, after the majority of reporters had
fled the Team Canada dressing room, Sidney
Crosby took a moment to reflect on what it
meant to wear that red-and-white maple leaf on
his chest while playing on home soil.